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President Barack Obama greets Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., as Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., left, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, right, watch, after Obama arrived at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

How to win doctors and influence prescriptions for drug sales

As a sales representative for a major drug company, Matt Webb was expected to entertain doctors often with, for example, seats to sporting events and dinners at five-star restaurants.

NPR

NATO chief warns against new Wikileaks release

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that the lives of soldiers and civilians could be endangered if the whistle-blowing Wikileaks website releases more secret military documents.

Sydney Morning Herald

Obama struggles to win women back

Despite 22 months of gender-specific policy moves, President Barack Obama has steadily lost ground with women, the Democratic Party’s biggest constituency.

Politico

Obama: Women are half the workforce

CNN

The haves, the have-nots and the dreamless dead

In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark since 1928, just before the Great Depression.

Reuters

Income inequality linked to Senate standoffs

Miller-McCune

Big public works projects a hard sell

From New Jersey to Hawaii, infrastructure projects are languishing on the drawing board, awaiting the right mix of creative financing, political arm-twisting and timing to move forward. It could be a long wait.

MSNBC

NJ rail tunnel needs tighter oversight

Bloomberg

NATION

Clinton mislaid nuclear launch code

According to a former top military official, former President Bill Clinton mislaid the plastic card with the nuclear launch codes that in military and White House parlance is called “the biscuit."

The Independent

Expect another winter of extremes

Federal forecasters called for another winter of extremes, with the Pacific Northwest expecting a wetter and colder season than average and the South and Southeast yearning for rain.

CNN

POLITICS

Do expensive campaign ads matter?

Candidates and interest groups are expected to spend at least $50 million in Nevada‘s 2010 federal election campaigns, mostly on advertising, but it’s unclear how much that will influence the state’s voters.

Lexington Herald-Leader

Election Day is already over for millions of early voters

Republicans clearly are turning out more early voters than two years ago, but clues about 2010 early voting patterns still give Democrats an edge in a number of states and big counties.

Seattle Times

Special section:

Early voting information center

EarlyVoting.net

EDUCATION

NYC spat over publishing teacher rankings reaches brief truce

The teachers union in New York City has won some time in its battle against the school district’s plan to give to reporters “value added” evaluation data that ranks teachers against their peers.

Christian Science Monitor

Character education found to fall short in federal study

Character education has grown in popularity, but the largest federal study of schoolwide programs to date has found that they don’t produce any improvements in student behavior or academic performance.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Past inspires modern solutions for historic black church

Worry is nothing new for the congregation at First African Baptist Church, which is well into its third century and one of the oldest black congregations in the United States.

CNN

Sikhs urge Obama to visit Golden Temple on India trip

Sikh groups have urged President Barack Obama not to avoid visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar during his India trip, amid reports he is now unlikely to go there.

BBC

Why Obama won’t visit Amritsar

YouTube

ENVIRONMENT

10 tips to green your Halloween

On Halloween many will be donning scary costumes, handing out sweets and partaking in other Halloween activities. A number of websites are offering advice on how to “green your Halloween.”

The Independent

Deciduous trees have decidedly beneficial impact on air pollution

New research by government-backed scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that deciduous vegetation absorbs one-third more air pollution than previously believed.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Diabetes to double or triple in US by 2050

Up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected.

Reuters

Low-dose aspirin cuts colon cancer risk

The use of long-term low-dose aspirin reduced both the incidence and the mortality associated with colorectal cancer, a 20-year follow-up of randomized trials showed.

MedPage Today

Aspirin may reduce risk of colon cancer

Insidermedicine

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Paul Froese and Christopher Bader):

Which god blesses America?

Huffington Post

Editorial:

O’Donnell logic flawed

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Still waiting for the grown-up talk on health care reform

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (Bob Ray Sanders):

Admitting mistakes and apologizing doesn’t diminish America

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (David Horsey):

‘Real Americans’ are not tea party priority

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (André Picard):

Do ‘medical miracles’ really exist?

Globeandmail.com

Video (Jon Groat):

What you missed: the midterm elections in 7 minutes

Newsweek

Column (Amy Goodman):

When banks are robbers

Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Collard greens and carrots may ward off breast cancer

Eating lots of carrots and cruciferous vegetables could reduce breast cancer risk, particularly an aggressive form common among African-American women, suggests a new study.

Reuters

Pittsburgh-area food pantry expands

With the holiday season just around the corner, the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry is both expanding and undergoing some changes.

KDKA

Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry opens new location

Post-Gazette

WORLD

French police dislodge protesters as key vote looms

French police dislodged a blockade at Paris‘ main oil depot as they sought to quash unrest ahead of a vote on the national pension system that has sparked the county’s largest protests in decades.